HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! I tried calling but no one answered.
Just kidding! :D
Sorry, no pictures this week, i forgot my camera. I guess you got those ones from the Joostens and Elder Owens though. The Joostens were AWESOME. Now i know why Martin was so cool. My companion is Elder Wheeler and he is a funny kid from Mountain Home, Idaho. And yes that is a small town. I'm no longer in a walking area which is a bummer but its fun cuz we drive A LOT out to small towns and stuff. Its an adventure all the time. Small town people are always a but more relaxed, which i like. They even had a tie contest after church on Sunday, and you are speaking to the official Strathmore Ward Annual Father's Day Tie Contest winner in the Craziest category. It was the fish tie that i have. It sealed the deal. Woot Woot! I won a small box of candy, and in some eyes, immortality for sure. :) After church, where i met someone who served in Lake Elsinore Ward and he remembered the Sniders and the Fardigs. That was cool. He supposedly served there back when the Dexter Building was new/dedicated. Crazy!
But yeah, after church we went to the Siksika Branch, which covers a native reserve and that was interesting. I'm so grateful to live in an area where the church is strong, but not too tremendously strong, oddly enough, haha. They have a potluck after church every week and that was fun. We had some funny conversations with the branch president about "ripened fish oil" aka rotten, then rottened again and left on the beach for 3 weeks, then rotted some more,cooked and made into oil. Oh, did i say rotten? I meant ripened. my bad, haha. We're gonna go try some next week probably. Yikes. Afterwards we were trying really hard to find something to do, because no one was home or answering their phone out there. SO we stopped by some random native lady who is the sister of the branch president's wife and talked to her for a bit. Then she said that someone came and mowed her lawn and was a member, so we didn't really know much at all about who it was so we just went there and visited with them. turns out they've been inactive for a few years, not because of lack of testimony but because of laziness. We had a great long conversation with them and they want to start coming back! That was our little miracle for the day.
We had a baptism on Saturday, which was very exciting because they are always fun to see. I didn't really have anything to do with it, which is kinda a bummer but whatev. I'll find someone else. :) Her name is Jessica and she's 15 and was really excited. Baptisms always blow my mind because they are SO simple and so fast. It's something that we as missionaries try SO hard for and work for months at a time with people to get them to come unto Christ by a 5 second ordinance. I love that the gospel is so simple like that. Til next week! I love you all!
Just kidding! :D
Sorry, no pictures this week, i forgot my camera. I guess you got those ones from the Joostens and Elder Owens though. The Joostens were AWESOME. Now i know why Martin was so cool. My companion is Elder Wheeler and he is a funny kid from Mountain Home, Idaho. And yes that is a small town. I'm no longer in a walking area which is a bummer but its fun cuz we drive A LOT out to small towns and stuff. Its an adventure all the time. Small town people are always a but more relaxed, which i like. They even had a tie contest after church on Sunday, and you are speaking to the official Strathmore Ward Annual Father's Day Tie Contest winner in the Craziest category. It was the fish tie that i have. It sealed the deal. Woot Woot! I won a small box of candy, and in some eyes, immortality for sure. :) After church, where i met someone who served in Lake Elsinore Ward and he remembered the Sniders and the Fardigs. That was cool. He supposedly served there back when the Dexter Building was new/dedicated. Crazy!
But yeah, after church we went to the Siksika Branch, which covers a native reserve and that was interesting. I'm so grateful to live in an area where the church is strong, but not too tremendously strong, oddly enough, haha. They have a potluck after church every week and that was fun. We had some funny conversations with the branch president about "ripened fish oil" aka rotten, then rottened again and left on the beach for 3 weeks, then rotted some more,cooked and made into oil. Oh, did i say rotten? I meant ripened. my bad, haha. We're gonna go try some next week probably. Yikes. Afterwards we were trying really hard to find something to do, because no one was home or answering their phone out there. SO we stopped by some random native lady who is the sister of the branch president's wife and talked to her for a bit. Then she said that someone came and mowed her lawn and was a member, so we didn't really know much at all about who it was so we just went there and visited with them. turns out they've been inactive for a few years, not because of lack of testimony but because of laziness. We had a great long conversation with them and they want to start coming back! That was our little miracle for the day.
We had a baptism on Saturday, which was very exciting because they are always fun to see. I didn't really have anything to do with it, which is kinda a bummer but whatev. I'll find someone else. :) Her name is Jessica and she's 15 and was really excited. Baptisms always blow my mind because they are SO simple and so fast. It's something that we as missionaries try SO hard for and work for months at a time with people to get them to come unto Christ by a 5 second ordinance. I love that the gospel is so simple like that. Til next week! I love you all!
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